Improved machine for putting on the wrappers gf cigars



G. A. REINIGER.

WRAPPING CIGARS.

N0. 33,604. Patented Oct. 29, 1861.

UNITED STATES G. A. REINIGER, OF STUTTGART. KINGDOM OF WURTEMBERG.

IMPROVED MACHINE FOR PUTTING ON THE WRAPPERS 0F ClGARS.

Specification forming part ofLetiers Patent No. 33,604, dnied October-29,1861.

To all whom/it may concern.-

Be it known that I, G. ALBERT REINIGER, of Stuttgart, inthe Kingdom of \Viirteinberg, have invented a new and Improved Machine for Putting on the \Vrappers of Cigars; and Iv do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which .Figure 1 isa front view of the machine, and Fig. 2 a vertical section of the same at right angles to Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures.

My invention consists in the combination of two rollers, a flexible apron, and a fixed table,as hereinafter described, whereby the wrapper is rolled round the bunch of tobacco of which the body of the cigar is made.

To-enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

A A are two upright standards supporting afiat table, 13, on the top of which there are two low standards, 0 C, supporting the arched table D, and below which there are two rigid hangers, E E, containing the bearings for two parallel horizontal rock-shafts, F G, arranged one above the other. These rock-shafts are geared together by two toothed sectors or wheels, F and GI, one fast upon each rockshaft.

To the upper rock-shaft, F, there are rigidly attached outside of the standards 0 0 two arms, 6 e, which contain the bearings for a roller, H, which is parallel with the shaft F, and at such distance therefrom that it is carried by an oscillating movement of the said shaft over the table D, at a short distance there from, the said table having a form very nearly resembling an arc concentric with the said shaft, only deviating so much from that form that the rollers in passing backward over the table will gradually arrive nearer to its surface until they have arrived near the rear edge, when they will gradually recede from the said surface.

To the journals a aof the roller H there is attached, by swinging boxes b b, a second roller, I, whose journals ff fit to bearings in the said boxes, and whose axis is parallel with that of the roller H. On the front of each arm 6 there is a rest, 0, Fig. 2, for one of the boxes I) b, which are thus prevented falling below a certain position. I

J is the flexible apron, made of inelastic india-rubber cloth or any other strong smooth flexible material secured at one end to a fixed bar, 1i, arranged in rear of and below the face of the arched table D, and at the other end to a roller, L, which is arranged in the front part of the said table, parallel with the rollers H I and rock-shafts F G in fixed bearings in the standards 0 G. This roller L is furnished at one end with a ratchet-wheel, g, to which there isapplied a pawl, h, attached to the adjacent standard (3 in such manner as to prevent the apron from unwinding from the said roller, but as to allow it to be woundup thereon by turning the said roller. The apron J passes over the top of the table D, and when there is no cigar in the machine is quite slack.

M is a lever, attached securely to the lower rock-sl1af t, G, having suspended from its front end, by a rod, N, a stirrup, O, and having attached to its rear end a weight, 1?, which tends to raise the stirrup and turn the said rockshaft in such a direction that, by the action of the gear G on the gear F, it causes the arms 0 c to be thrown forward to a position to bring the rollers H I to a position between the front edge of the table and the roller L. A similar weight, P is applied to an arm, M, fast on the rock-shaft G, to aid 1 in its effect.

R is a fixed vertical guide-rod attached to the adjacent standard A, toserve as a guide for a swivel-eye, S, attached to the rod M, and

"on the front part of the apron J, and their places a bunch upon its front part and presses the bunch and wrapper and the slack of the apron J down into the space between the front of the table D and the roller H, while the latter is in the position shown in black outline in Fig. 2, and then presses down the stirrup O with his foot, which, through the agency of the lever M, rock-shaft G, toothed sectors G and I and rock-shaft F, causes the rollers H and I to roll over the table D and carry with them a fold of the apron with the wrapper and bunch'of the-cigar, and so to give the wrapper and bunch a rolling motion over the table D, the said rollers deriving a rolling motion from the friction of the apron and causing the wrapper to be rolled round the bunch, the

cigar being in the cavity between. the rollers and being pressed by the action of the rollers and being thrown out from the fold in the apron CV01 the back of the said table, and falling on the table 15. lhe rollers are'shown in Fig. 2, in red outline, as having carried the cigar about halfway over the table, and in.

compactness of the cigar is regulated by the degree of slaekness which the apron has before the rolling operation commences, the slacker the band the less being the compactness of the cigar, and vice versa. The'apron is adjusted by the roller L before operation to have a greater or less slackness according as the cigar is larger or smaller in circumference.

The table D may have a suitable concave form in a transverse direction, and the rollers H I a suitable concave form in a longitudinal direction to give a belly or more or less increase of circumference to the middle of the cigar.

"What I claim as myinvention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of the rollers H I, the apron' 'J', and the fixed table D, the whole operating together, substantially as and for the purpose herein specified.

G. ALBERT BEINIGER. XVitnesses:

CHARLES Emmn, CARL HERZOG. 

